According to the OED, the etymological origin of route is from a Latin phrase has more to do with rupture or breaking that with directing motion, tracking or linkages. Route as the edge of the jigsaw pieces, rather than the sidewalk. I am curious ...

'Functional fixedness' is a handle coined by research psychologists to describe the myriad ways in which an individual's cognative patterning of socialized 'uses' of objects limits that person's abilities to re-utilize (or re-see) an object. ...

More & more I find myself attracted to moments in language that seem full of overreaching, slippage, over-ambitious multiple meanings. When words (a word) starts to carry so many meanings, it begins to undo itself. Derivation, for example. The lov...

1. The process by which raw (cane) sugar is heated, softened & separated into 'mother liquor' and crystals. In order to render 'purified' crystals, the raw mass is combined with a concentrated, heavy syrup while heating & the resulting 'magma' is ...

Life, lately, has been full of encounters that seem to lead to perspective. The floating horizon, heat waves rolling on asphalt. In optical terms, the relationship between the apparent size of an object and how far it is from you (distance & heigh...